To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

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The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. However, in the resent years, the concepts and the beauty of the novel are not fully appreciated by today's youth, and subjects such as racial inequality are regarded as "things in the history books", thus, Universal Studios seized this opportunity to recreate the classic novel in a movie format that will appeal to today's culture.

(Takes place during the years of the late 2000s recession, in average sized town of Maycomb, Alabama, a placed filled with unemployment due to the collapsing monoindustry, obeised low income families, white and minority gangs, and greatly divided between the various social and economic castes such as skin color. The camera now follows the 6 year old, scantily dressed Scout on her way to meet Jem, her older brother, wearing oversized jeans, a wife beater, and a baseball cap in reverse.)

SCOUT: What'cha doing, Jem?

(Jem continues to look out at a very expensive looking house on a treehouse with a pair of binoculars.)